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[quaawaa]

For me the most notable thing about these posts is how old some of them are. The discourse around this topic really hasn't changed much in 5 years, and it's sort of interesting that this dude was posting about this before the recent wave of NJB and r/fuckcars cucks came about.

I suspect /r/fuckcars and the urbanist YouTube channels are partially astroturfed. I noticed city planners implementing their dumbass ideas years before they became popular online.

It amazes me how brain dead these people could get. Even a preschooler could easily overtake a parked van in a low traffic road.
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Here's /r/fuckcars take on that Twitter thread:



I love how they assert that delivery vehicles never block car lanes:

Why would a driver be on the sidewalkpavement?

The UK drives on the left side of the road, dumbass.

It's Tesla Man's fault that people are mocking the cyclist:

Anyone who says the cyclist should have just gone around got downvoted:


Amazon should use cargo bikes instead of vans:

If they used cargo bikes, they'd still have to pull over and block the bike lane, but I suppose they think it's ok for a bike to block the bike lane.

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[reptile baht spaniard rid]

These idiots have complained about an ambulance parked over a bike lane. They’re incorrigible.

 

[S.C.U.D.]

I've been wanting to make a thread about people who constantly create problems on the road or make problems worse just so they can get that clout and victimhood on social media. It would include people like TV presenter and cyclist Jeremy Vine and "motovlogger" motorcyclists who make fools of themselves in public.

I'm heavily reminded of that Casey Neistat video on NYC bike lanes that we've all seen where he crashes into shit on purpose to amp up the drama, and even gets a ticket when he deliberately rides his bike into a cop car. That may have been the starting point for a large number of the NJB bugmen we see today.
For those who haven't seen it (surprised this isn't in the OP as I think it's pretty foundational to a lot of these people's worldviews):

And for fuck's sake, he's STILL going on about the bike lanes. This is from just last year:

Casey is getting too old to keep taking these pratfalls. tl;dr on the video: a New York City councilman proposed a system where if you report a bike lane violation, you are entitled to 25% of the ticket that person has to pay, which is supposed to be $175. Casey bitches about people parking in the bike lane and deliberately rides his bike into a parked vehicle again, and then talks about how much money you could make snitching. That's it.

This bounty system sounds fucking retarded and knowing New York, they'll probably just not pay anyone if it is implemented. "Oh, sorry, someone else reported that violation before you. No bounty!"

 

[reptile baht spaniard rid]

I was rucking around on wickedpedia and found out that the la metro mentioned previously has been trending downhill for awhile but this stuck out:

Ridership declines also coincide with passage of AB 60, signed into law by Governor Brown in 2013, which provides for issuance of a vehicle operators license regardless of immigration status.

So even illegals were like fuck the bus once they could get a license to drive.

 

[Xarpho's Return]

This bounty system sounds fucking retarded and knowing New York, they'll probably just not pay anyone if it is implemented. "Oh, sorry, someone else reported that violation before you. No bounty!"

The first wrong assumption of course is that cities will adopt any policy that makes them less revenue unless they expected to find 25% more parking violations, but the real issue is that a lot of people won't pay the parking tickets, to the point where New York City has over $500 million owed to them in parking tickets that they'll never get.

So now you'll be known as a snitch and never see a dime of profit from it.

 

[Lobster Cult High Priest]

The first wrong assumption of course is that cities will adopt any policy that makes them less revenue unless they expected to find 25% more parking violations, but the real issue is that a lot of people won't pay the parking tickets, to the point where New York City has over $500 million owed to them in parking tickets that they'll never get.

So now you'll be known as a snitch and never see a dime of profit from it.

I would be interested in what the demographics are of all those unpaid parking tickets, but I'm sure we all already know.

 

[General Emílio Médici]

The whole idea of these tickets is so in line with the NJB and Urbanist submission to state power and utopian school of thought. "We will fix the problem by writing new laws and demanding people adhere to them!" My brother in Christ you can't even get people to not kill each other with all the police you have what makes you think this sort of spineless ticket law is gonna do?

 

[WelperHelper99]

I was rucking around on wickedpedia and found out that the la metro mentioned previously has been trending downhill for awhile but this stuck out:


So even illegals were like fuck the bus once they could get a license to drive.

Well even now, if you can scrape together a few thousand, that old camry is yours. It's how I got my 05 Hyundai. You'll have to settle for old and maintenance issues most likely, but even now cars are still accessible in America.

The whole idea of these tickets is so in line with the NJB and Urbanist submission to state power and utopian school of thought. "We will fix the problem by writing new laws and demanding people adhere to them!" My brother in Christ you can't even get people to not kill each other with all the police you have what makes you think this sort of spineless ticket law is gonna do?

The laws aren't for the criminals but for the law abiding citizens. They want owning a car to be as onerous as possible. Pay your car tax carbrain.

 

[reptile baht spaniard rid]

Well even now, if you can scrape together a few thousand, that old camry is yours. It's how I got my 05 Hyundai. You'll have to settle for old and maintenance issues most likely, but even now cars are still accessible in America.

and poor beaner is like +20 to vehicle maintenance, you let loose a group of illegals in a junk yard and they'd each have a working car in a few hours, tops.

it's amazing how much hatred these fags have for musk and TLSA because "self-driving cars" is the ONLY way to get something like mass transit to actually work affordably for everyone; the absolute utility of a vehicle is just insanely high compared to the other options

 

[WelperHelper99]

and poor beaner is like +20 to vehicle maintenance, you let loose a group of illegals in a junk yard and they'd each have a working car in a few hours, tops.

it's amazing how much hatred these fags have for musk and TLSA because "self-driving cars" is the ONLY way to get something like mass transit to actually work affordably for everyone; the absolute utility of a vehicle is just insanely high compared to the other options

With a vehicle, even a old junker, I can not only go areas the Buses don't, but I have access to the highway, which at 75 mph, is gonna get you pretty far on a tank of gas, since thats where theyre at there most efficient, especially if you toss something in like fuel cleaner before a big trip to boost your highway mileage. But they don't like that because you can now LEAVE the hive.

 

[reptile baht spaniard rid]

With a vehicle, even a old junker, I can not only go areas the Buses don't, but I have access to the highway, which at 75 mph, is gonna get you pretty far on a tank of gas, since thats where theyre at there most efficient, especially if you toss something in like fuel cleaner before a big trip to boost your highway mileage. But they don't like that because you can now LEAVE the hive.

a number of people have commented on that philosophically; that the unique modern "American" viewpoint may be partially tied to the automobile; the post-war modernization of the USA (and even before, in the Great Depression) heavily featured the car and its associated freedom of movement. Even modern philosophers of uncertain origin tend to agree (a):

I am convinced that the automobile’s most strident critics are well aware of the fact that automobility promotes autonomy—and that is precisely why they are so wary of it. To be in the business of formulating policy is to be professionally predisposed to consider people as so many knights, rooks, and pawns to be moved around on the social chessboard in the service of one’s grand strategy. Not all analysts succumb to this temptation, but many do.

You can massively see it in all American media created post-war and into the 70s, it was all centered around cars, the way today it's all centered around niggers.

Chairman of the Board of Volvo identified it 30+ years ago (a):

Then he delivered the zinger. "If the car was invented today," he said, "I doubt whether our governments would allow ordinary people to have such freedom."

 

[WelperHelper99]

a number of people have commented on that philosophically; that the unique modern "American" viewpoint may be partially tied to the automobile; the post-war modernization of the USA (and even before, in the Great Depression) heavily featured the car and its associated freedom of movement. Even modern philosophers of uncertain origin tend to agree (a):



You can massively see it in all American media created post-war and into the 70s, it was all centered around cars, the way today it's all centered around niggers.

Chairman of the Board of Volvo identified it 30+ years ago (a):

That Volvo quote is scarily accurate. The governments of the time didn't realize how much control they were letting go of. But now, it's ingrained in American society. The bugmen want it gon, but if you ask me, that would be the breaking point for many people.

 

[CFC-12]

That Volvo quote is scarily accurate. The governments of the time didn't realize how much control they were letting go of. But now, it's ingrained in American society. The bugmen want it gon, but if you ask me, that would be the breaking point for many people.

If I was to live in a world where I'd never be able to own or drive a car again, I'd straight up kill myself. Not only is it probably the most important and useful thing I own, but cars are my #1 hobby.

Not to mention that if we get to the point where that happens, the world probably isn't gonna be the most appealing looking place to begin with.

 

[Xarpho's Return]

The whole idea of these tickets is so in line with the NJB and Urbanist submission to state power and utopian school of thought. "We will fix the problem by writing new laws and demanding people adhere to them!" My brother in Christ you can't even get people to not kill each other with all the police you have what makes you think this sort of spineless ticket law is gonna do?

Don't forget the fact that these rules are not written for them, but for others. A ticket given to cycloid for blowing through a stop sign would cause them to go full ACAB.

 

[Mista House]

Don't forget the fact that these rules are not written for them, but for others. A ticket given to cycloid for blowing through a stop sign would cause them to go full ACAB.

Lots here in bongland seem to forget they cant cycle on pavements anymore unless its specifically marked. I've had a couple go full meltdown over me blocking them and telling them to fuck off onto the road. Hot take arguments are:

"There are too many cars its not safe"

"I ackshually can cycle on pavement because......."

"Why are you stopping me?"

If they want to bitch and moan about cars being in the bike lane then they can rightfully listen to my autistic meltdowns because they didnt want to risk it on the road.

 

[Hyro]

Lots here in bongland seem to forget they cant cycle on pavements anymore unless its specifically marked. I've had a couple go full meltdown over me blocking them and telling them to fuck off onto the road. Hot take arguments are:

"There are too many cars its not safe"

"I ackshually can cycle on pavement because......."

"Why are you stopping me?"

If they want to bitch and moan about cars being in the bike lane then they can rightfully listen to my autistic meltdowns because they didnt want to risk it on the road.

This is half of what makes cyclists such a pain to deal with. They use the road but don't have to obey any of the rules that cars do. Cyclist does something retarded and gets run over? Drivers fault because the cyclist isn't beheld to any of the rules.

 

[Xarpho's Return]

This is half of what makes cyclists such a pain to deal with. They use the road but don't have to obey any of the rules that cars do. Cyclist does something retarded and gets run over? Drivers fault because the cyclist isn't beheld to any of the rules.

The other cope is "blame the infrastructure". There's a few places that actually ARE "designed wrong" (one place in Houston has a "straight" bicycle lane between two car-lanes that have right turns) but these are few and far between.

 

[Negro]

I suspect /r/fuckcars and the urbanist YouTube channels are partially astroturfed.

All the big bugmen outlets are completely astroturfed.

It's no coincidence these "urbanist" positions are 100% in alignment with those of billionaires who want us to be content living in tiny boxes and owning nothing downtown close to their office palaces so we can slave away in their cubicles and serve them at their favourite restaurants.

 

[quaawaa]

On a post about how your life has changed after being "orange-pilled", an urbanist complains about lacking community. Someone tells him to go to church and talk to his neighbors, but he just tips his fedora:

I don't think urban design is the reason why that guy is alone.
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[WelperHelper99]

On a post about how your life has changed after being "orange-pilled", an urbanist complains about lacking community. Someone tells him to go to church and talk to his neighbors, but he just tips his fedora:
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I don't think urban design is the reason why that guy is alone.
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If you say you don't need to go to church, you need it most of all. Get in that 2023 Nissan Leaf-

Drive down, and sit in on a session. Talk to people after, go to the cookouts, volunteer for their soup kitchens, feed the hungry, and tell me you haven't found a home by then.

Maybe you have cooking skills, can make a mean Chilli, so at a church cook-off, you could load that in your electric shit wagon, take it down, and feel a sense of happiness as people enjoy your efforts.